Utah panoramas

[haven]

http://www.utah3d.net/

This web site has a number of beautiful panoramic photos of the
natural Utah landscape. Well worth a few minutes to view!

The "about the photographer" section shows a photo of a camera
with very wide angle lens on a tripod with degree wheel, so I think
the panoramas were created the original way, stitching a great number
of individual photos together into a large image. The photographer
doesn't say what hardware or software is used.

The alternative is to use a cone with a mirror surface. The camera
sits below the cone, pointing upwards. (Think of a camera pointing up
at the bottom of an ice cream cone.) The camera can capture a 360*
view with a single shot. Special software translates the resulting
circular image into a rectangular one for presentation.

Here's an example: http://www.eggsolution.com/new/product/egglens.html

 

[CSG]

Those are great! Thanks for the link.

 

[nwoods]

Wow his two newest ones are very cool. I did not see any "easy" way of accomplishing access to that image of the "False Kiva"

 

[Regcabguy]

We were in Zion and Bryce parks last April and it was stunning! I don't think you could take a bad photo. The sky was so blue and clean! I don't know how Utah does it but we didn't see one bum with cardboard sign. I think the police buy them lunch and a ticket to SoCal.